Top 10 Total Books Published by SF Imprint in 2005

I’m finally (don’t get me started) getting around to reading the February 2006 “Year in Review” issue of Locus Magazine. The many perspectives of the Recommended Reading sections are fun because they point out all the cool science fiction published last year. It’s nice to see books I’ve read. It’s not so nice to see all the books I want to read but don’t have time for.

The 2005 Books Summary article is, as usual, comprehensive, interesting and full of fun figures, like the Total Books Published by SF Imprint in 2005. (The “by SF Imprint” table is more telling about SF than the “by Publisher” table since it focuses on the SF.) Here are the Top 10 with their respective book count totals.

This list reflects SF only – fantasy is already filtered out. The numbers are much larger when you consider fantasy, though if memory serves (the mag isn’t in front of me at the moment), the order is relatively the same. Even that is hard to tell since the table reflecting ALL genre fiction is by publisher (RandomHouse, Penguin Press) which contains multiple imprints.

Well lookee here. Back in 1966, Harry Harrison collected the all of the editorials from Astounding Science Fiction (now known as Analog) written by then-Editor John W. Campbell and published them as John W. Campbell, Collected Editorials From Analog. This book is available on the Internet Archive, freely downloadable in a variety of formats. Enjoy! [via eBookNewser]

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